01:00 - 05:20
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
Paddy O'Connell presents Broadcasting House.
He was a local radio reporter in Devon, Essex and Cleveland and worked on the launch of Five Live.
He was a reporter for The World a US-based daily programme and later a host on LBC 97.3
As BBC Wall Street Correspondent, he lived and worked in the USA for eight years, and reported from New York during the attacks of 9/11.
He was born in Guildford, and now lives in London.
As a child, he relied on sound effects records to make radio dramas and outside broadcasts. No copies still exist.
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3 Jan 2010
03/01/2010
News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.